By Okosun Dennis
The Nigerian Armed Forces Resettlement Centre (NAFRC), Oshodi on Friday graduated 256 retirees of the Nigerian Armed Forces and retrains 68 officers of other paramilitary organization.
The Commandant of NAFRC, Air Vice Marshal Kingsley Lar, said during the Passing Out Ceremony of Senior/Mid-Level Officers’ Entrepreneurship and Management Course 01/2020 and NAFRC Trainees Course 02/2020 that the centre would remain committed to being a world-class centre.
AVM Lar explained that the institution would continue to explore ways to enhance the process of teaching and learning in order to produce better citizens for the development of the country.
“NAFRC remains committed to the vision of being a world-class centre of excellence for the training of vocational skills not only for disengaging military personnel but also to members of security and para-military agencies and the entire Nigerian citizens.
Since inception, NAFRC has continued to offer courses in Rabbitry, Fisheries, Engineering, Technical, Management, Security, and recently Paint making, Communications, equipment repairs and floriculture.
“We will continue to explore ways and means to enhance the process of teaching and learning at the centre to produce better citizens for the development of a greater nation,” he reiterated.
Lar noted that the graduation was historic because “this is the first time this centre is training and graduating non-members of the Nigerian Armed Forces in various entrepreneurship and vocational studies.
The participants are from the Nigerian Customs Service, Department of State Service, National Intelligence Agency and Defence Intelligence Agencies.
“The centre in conjunction with the Mushin Local Government Council have successfully conducted various vocational training for citizens in the area as well as youths from different military barracks across Nigeria.
“The Centre’s Agriculture Wing has conducted training and cultivated several economic trees and vegetable farms at the Nigerian Army Cantonment, Ojo; and the NAF Base, Ikeja while the Navy Town Ojo is being finalised,” he said.
However, Senator Istifanus Gyang representing Plateau North at the Senate said that the Senate would not relent in ensuring that the Armed Forces are equipped and empowered to deal summarily with the myriads of security challenges that continue to confront the nation.
“Within the competing demands, we in the National Assembly have, all this while, given appropriate attention to the Armed Forces given the serious security challenges we’ve been confronted with as a nation,” he said.
Defence Trust Bill, Gyang said that the Senate would speed up legislative process to ensure it gets across to the president. “The Defence Trust Bill is a work in progress but we would speed up the legislative process to ensure that we get it across to President Muhammadu Buhari.
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